as I go over that new sneak peek scene of the date, I don't see "I'm an ally" as Buck denying he's on a gay date or that he's not not straight, (I say since he hasn't said a label yet, but he knows he's not 100% straight) but Tommy's insinuation about internalized homophobia.
Tommy starts out with "nobody is looking at us Evan, we are just two guys out to dinner. nobody cares." Buck is so scared of being judged, as if someone thinking he is bi/gay could be a bad thing.
then Buck's relief at Tommy's coming out story, not being out when he worked at the 118, knowing Tommy came out later in life (still young imo) and worked through his fears.
but it's the "that I stopped lying to myself" is what causes some pushback.
"this is my first date with a dude, I'm not weirded out" for that buck acknowledges he's on a date with a man, that's not the problem. he is obviously uncomfortable, but he recognizes this new aspect about himself and wants to explore it.
the "I'm an ally. every pride month I put a rainbow on my Instagram" is more a I have nothing to hide. I'm literally on a date with a man. how could I have any homophobia? I love and support LGBTQ+ people.
buck is scared and even if supportive of LGBTQ+ people externally, he has some internalized issues (as nearly all queer people work through), and Tommy acknowledges it and talks him through some of his own experiences. even if I'm a buddie ride or die, I love Tommy. he's such a good boy.
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i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers
you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.
AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character
see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.
mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.
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